Who was born on June 26 and what happened on that day?
👉 HOLIDAYS:
🇺🇳 UN – International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.
🇺🇳 UN – World Drug Day.
🌎 World Refrigeration Day.
🌏 Birthday of the toothbrush.
🔹 NATIONAL HOLIDAYS:
🇮🇸 Iceland – President’s birthday.
🇷🇴 Romania – National Flag Day.
🇨🇦 Canada, 🇺🇸 USA – National Canoe Day.
🇺🇸 USA – National Day of Cosmetologists.
🇧🇾 Belarus – Prosecutor’s Day.
🇹🇲 Turkmenistan – Day of Prosecutors.
🇹🇭 Thailand – Sunthorn Phu Day.
🇸🇴 Somalia – independence day from Great Britain.
🏳️ Crimean Tatars – Day of the Crimean Tatar flag.
🇲🇬 Madagascar – Independence Day.
🇦🇿 Azerbaijan – Armed Forces Day.
👉 EVENTS:
– 1492 – Origin of mountaineering.
– 1522 – Solomon I the Legitimate expelled the Hospitallers from Rhodes.
– 1698 – Peter I arrived in Vienna.
– 1723 Russian Empire captured Baku.
– 1770 – Englishman William Addis, a rebel in prison, invented the toothbrush.
– 1896 – The first movie theater opened in New Orleans.
– 1925 – premiere of Charlie Chaplin’s film “The Golden Temptation” in Hollywood.
– 1945 – the title of Generalissimo of the Soviet Union was introduced in the USSR.
– 1945 – At the San Francisco conference, representatives of 50 countries signed the UN Charter.
– 1954 – For the first time in the world, the Atomic Power Station was launched in the city of Obninsk (Russia).
– 1960 – Madagascar’s independence was declared.
– 1960 – Somalia declares its independence from Great Britain.
– 1997 – Kaspersky Lab company was founded.
– 2015 – Registration of same-sex marriages is required in the USA.
👉 BIRTHDAYS:
– 1694 – Georg Brandt (1768) – Swedish chemist and mineralogist, discovered cobalt in 1730.
– 1730 – Charles Messier (1817) – French astronomer, discovered 14 comets.
– 1786 – Sunton Pu (1855) – Thai poet, reformer of Thai poetry.
– 1794 – Ivan Davidov (1863) – Russian philosopher and philologist.
– 1821 – Mitra Bartolome (1906) – Argentine statesman, President of Argentina (1862-1868).
– 1826 – William Kelvin (1907) – British physicist and mechanic.
– 1866 – George Herbert Carnarvon (1923) – English Egyptologist, leader of the expedition that found Tutankhamun’s tomb.
– 1892 – Pearl Buck (1973) – American writer, winner of the Nobel Prize (1938).
– 1898 – Willy Messerschmitt (1978) – German aircraft designer.
– 1910 – Roy Plunkett (1994) – an American chemist who discovered polytetrafluoroethylene plastic.
– 1921 – Vera Alexandrova – actress, People’s Artist of Uzbekistan (1981).
– 1937 – Robert Richardson (2013) – American physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize (1996).
– 1944 – Gennadiy Zyuganov – Russian politician, chairman of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party, deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.
– 1950 – Oybarchin Bakirova – film actress.
– 1963 – Mikhail Khodorkovsky – Russian businessman, public figure and statesman.
-1968 – Gvidni Torlasius Johannesson – President of Iceland (since 2016).
– 1970 – Chris O’Donnell – American film actor.
– 1976 – Oleksandr Zakharchenko (2018) – Chairman of the unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic (2014-2018), Major General.
– 1984 – Sedraya Adila (Indila) – French singer, composer, songwriter.
– 1993 – Ariana Grande-Butera – American singer and actress.
– 2002 – Yulia Gavrilina – Russian video blogger (tiktoker), singer, TV presenter.
– 2005 – Alexia Niderlandskaya – Queen of the Netherlands.